WWII Poster…

This one is a ‘generic’ poster for lack of a better way to title it…

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I wasn’t able to find out who did this one, but it was probably done in early 1942.  I believe by a gent named Allen Saalberg. Ironically, I can’t find anything that says he did ANY posters for the war.  He apparently was a silk screen artist…

Bonus points if you can place the quote…

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WWII Poster… — 14 Comments

  1. When I was in 7th grade we had to memorize the Gettysburg Address. It actually stuck. They don’t bother teaching that kind of stuff now.

  2. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as previously mentioned. However, my first exposure to that quote was the final scene of the original Red Dawn.

  3. True words endure. Written by the speaker, with no focus groups or spin doctors involved, and delivered without a teleprompter. When, if ever, will we have another leader like him? Certainly not the current one, who claims to have the same stature. What an ass.

  4. Bonus points for identifying that? I hope you’re kidding — it’s one of those that everyone should know.

    But I suppose they don’t, any more…

  5. Craig- Nope, and if they do, it’s slanted all to hell…

    SPEMack- Understood…

    WSF- Excellent point!

    Ian/Buck- Other than us old farts? I’m not sure they do…

  6. Am I the only one who noticed the hole in the stars and bars looks like a heart? Or did everyone but me already know it and didn’t think it worth mentioning? I can be a dork sometimes.

  7. Just in case anyone wanted to read the whole thing.

    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

    Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

    But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

    The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

    It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  8. Rick- Yep..

    CP- Now that you mention it…

    Juvat- Thanks! 272 words and three minutes… And they are STILL arguing over the exact text… sigh

  9. Read it? Heck, I had to memmorize it for a civics class. (As well as the preamble to the Constitution.)

    And don’t get me started on the brain damaged turtle singing “Duck and Cover”.